WORLD (PT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

5:00 pm

The Eugenics Crusade: American Experience
Learn the story of the unlikely -- and largely unknown -- campaign to breed a "better" American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control. D

7:00 pm

Reel South"The State of Eugenics"
By Dawn Sinclair Shapiro. Between 1933 and 1974, the state of North Carolina ran one of the most aggressive eugenics programs, sterilizing more than 7,600 men, women and children. This film follows the journey of survivors, legislators and journalists who insist the state confront its role in the tragic, forced sterilization of thousands of Americans thought to have "undesirable" genetics. D

8:00 pm

Outdoor Idaho"The Path Less Traveled"
Travel on these lightly used routes: float the lower Owyhee River; journey on foot across the Great Rift areas; pack with llamas to Loon Lake; experience the crashing waves of Milner Gorge; glide the river trails of Clark Fork Delta; and float above Boise in a balloon.G

8:30 pm

Dialogue"Author Andrew Solomon: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference"
Author and professor Andrew Solomon relates how he went from being a bullied child suffering from depression to an award-winning journalist traveling the world. Solomon's 2001 book "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression" won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity," tells the stories of families raising exceptional children who not only learn to deal with their challenges but also find profound meaning in doing so.G

9:00 pm

The Eugenics Crusade: American Experience
Learn the story of the unlikely -- and largely unknown -- campaign to breed a "better" American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control. D

11:00 pm

Reel South"The State of Eugenics"
By Dawn Sinclair Shapiro. Between 1933 and 1974, the state of North Carolina ran one of the most aggressive eugenics programs, sterilizing more than 7,600 men, women and children. This film follows the journey of survivors, legislators and journalists who insist the state confront its role in the tragic, forced sterilization of thousands of Americans thought to have "undesirable" genetics. D